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An extended nightmare dreamt by Bob Hartley of ''[[The Bob Newhart Show]]''.
{{quote|'''Bob:''' Well, I was an innkeeper in this crazy little town in Vermont! [[Lampshade Hanging|Nothing made sense in this place.]] I mean, the maid was an heiress. Her husband talked in alliteration. The handyman kept missing the point of things. And then there were these three woodsmen, but only one of them talked!
'''Emily:''' That settles it. [[Acid Reflux Nightmare|No more Japanese food before you go to bed.]]
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* [[All Just a Dream]]: Brilliantly played with; after the completely out-there finale, having that episode revealed to be a dream wasn't unexpected. Finding out ''whose'' dream, now...
** This was done to parody the last episode of ''[[St. Elsewhere]]'', where the ''entire series'' is revealed to be the daydream of an autistic boy.
▲* [[All Just a Dream]]: Brilliantly played with; after the completely out-there finale, having that episode revealed to be a dream wasn't unexpected. Finding out ''whose'' dream, now...)
**
** According to Newhart's memoir, it was simply a good idea by his real life wife Ginnie.
* [[Arcadia]]
* [[As Himself]]: [[The Tonight Show|Johnny Carson]], [[The Carol Burnett Show|Tim Conway]], Edwin Newman.
* [[Away in a Manger]]: Used in the
* [[Big "Shut Up!"]]: The Darryls to their wives in the finale (also their only line in the entire series; see [[The Voiceless]], below).
* [[Breakout Character
** Larry, Darryl and Darryl were locally ''very'' popular in real-world Vermont, culminating in the actors appearing in character for an all-lard [[Food Fight]] staged in Burlington as part of a local festival in the late 1980s. Sort of a live, in-person [[
** Both Stephanie and Michael were also originally introduced as one-shot guest stars, and were popular enough to become regulars.
* [[Cannot Tell a Joke]]: Dick, in at least one episode.
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* [[Drop-In Character]]: Larry and the Darryls.
* [[Eccentric Townsfolk]]: The show runs on this trope.
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: Larry Darryl and Darryl's first business - "Anything For a Buck". They'll do anything for a buck. If
* [[Extremely Overdue Library Book]]: Averted. Larry, Darryl, and Darryl all decided to make a time capsule and asked for donations. One week later, they had to did it up, because one of the Darryls placed a library book.
* [[Grand Finale]]: "The Last Newhart
** They went to great pains to make sure that the studio audience didn't see the [[Rebuilt Set|bedroom set]] until they had started filming.
* [[Halloween Episode]]: "Take Me to Your Loudon".
* [[Hollywood New England]]
* [[I Want You to Meet An Old Friend of Mine]]▼
* [[Instrumental Theme Tune]]: Composed by [[Henry Mancini]].
** Kind of a sadly-averted [[Crowning Music of Awesome]] because of the Mancini tie-in. The man who wrote the timeless jazz themes for ''[[The Pink Panther]]'' and ''[[Peter Gunn]]'' basically wrote pleasant-but-bland elevator music for this theme.
** It may be "Pleasant but bland", but it fit the mood of a series set in a sleepy Vermont town better then a jazz theme would (or the ''[[Remington Steele]]'' theme written the same year).
▲* [[I Want You to Meet An Old Friend of Mine]]
* [[The Tonight Show|Johnny Carson]]: Pays Larry and the Darryls' gas bill.
{{quote|'''Larry''': Hi, I'm Larry, this is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl. And heeeeeeere's Johnny!}}
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* [[Logo Joke]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz8ewq8mxRI "Meow."]
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A27GG9ApBiM "QUIET!!"]
* [[Mad Magazine]]: ''Not So New-Heart''.
* [[Missing the Good Stuff]]
* [[Mistaken for Dying]]: Subversion.
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* [[Mr. Fixit]]: George.
* [[Newhart Phonecall]]: [[Trope Namer]]. A common gag on the show.
** Interestingly in one episode, Dick has a phone conversation with one of the Darryls before it was established that they never spoke, even off screen.
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Averted ''hard'' with Larry's brothers.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Dick.
* [[Put on a Bus]]: Leslie, Kirk.
* [[Quirky Town]]
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* [[Rich Bitch]]: Stephanie, with a little [[Servile Snarker]] thrown in.
* [[Running Gag]]: "Hi, I'm Larry. This is my brother Darryl. And this is my other brother Darryl."
* [[Show Within a Show]]:
* [[The Smart Guy]]: Dick, somewhat.
* [[Strange Syntax Speaker]]: Michael Harris speaks in alliteration.
* [[Stylistic Suck]]: Michael develops a truly awful sitcom called
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Stephanie, for Leslie.
** Or inverted, depending on how you look at it. Stephanie and Leslie were not very alike, as Leslie was too bland to even exist as a sitcom character and Stephanie was actually funny.
* [[Sweater Girl]]: Joanna. Lampshaded in the [[All Just a Dream]] finale noted above, when Bob says to his "real" wife Emily, "You know, you really should wear more sweaters."
* [[Telethon]]: In one episode, Michael convinces Dick into hosting a 72
* [[Time Skip]]
* [[Twist Ending]]: Parodied, in one of the all-time great TV moments.
* [[The Voiceless]]: Larry's brothers Darryl and Darryl, at least until the [[Suddenly Voiced|grand finale]].
* [[Work Com]]: With the twist that the Loudons' place of business also happened to be their home.
** Once Dick started hosting
* [[Ye Goode Olde Days]]: Dick is a great history buff and bought the Inn for nostalgia's sake. The Inn is a very tastefully done building with antiques and paintings on display.
* [[You Look Familiar]]: Thomas Hill (Chester) and Julia Duffy (Stephanie) had played father and daughter in the short
** In the finale, Dr. Hartley fails to notice that his best friend in college is his handyman.
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[[Category:Work Com]]
[[Category:American Series]]
[[Category:Newhart]]▼
[[Category:TV Series]]
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